Buy the Bayern Ticket to Save on Train and Bus Travel in Bavaria

Buying a Bayern Ticket is a great way to save on transportation costs in Bavaria and Munich in Germany. The Bavaria Ticket is a travel pass valid for individuals and small groups on regional German railways trains, local buses, and trams.

The Deutsche Bahn Bayern Ticket (German Railways Bavaria Ticket) is a great savings deal making transportation in the German state Bavaria exceptionally cheap. This day travel card is available for individuals (€25) or small groups of up to five (€53) and allows for unlimited travel on regional, S and U-Bahn trains, most buses, and trams throughout Bavaria including all major cities such as Munich, Nuremberg, and Augsburg. A special overnight pass is also available for travel after 6 pm. Buy the Bayern Ticket online, at vending machines, or from most bus drivers.

Save on Train and Bus Fares with the Bayern Ticket in Bavaria

The Bayern Ticket is a transportation savings pass that allows for fantastic savings on train and bus fares when traveling in Bavaria in southern Germany. The ticket is valid for unlimited travel for a day – subject to conditions – and may be bought for individuals or for small groups of up to five. The group ticket is the biggest bargain and is now priced according to the actual number of passengers.

The main condition of the Bavaria Ticket is that only local and regional trains may be used – i.e. no Inter-City (IC/EC) or Inter-City-Express (ICE) trains – but this is hardly a major hardship for tourists on sightseeing trips in Bavaria. Also note the ticket may only be used on weekdays after 9 am (or after 6 pm on any day for the night ticket) but on weekends from midnight. On weekends, a Schönes Wochenende Ticket is a useful alternative for travel across state borders.

The Bayern Ticket is priced according to the size of the group and available in the following versions: (€2 more expensive if bought from a ticket window rather than online or at a machine.)

Bayern Ticket Second Class

No of Passengers

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Ticket Price

€ 25

€ 32

€ 39

€ 46

€ 53

Bayern Ticket First Class

No of Passengers

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Ticket Price

€ 37.50

€ 57

€ 76.50

€ 96

€ 115.50

Bayern Ticket Nacht / Night

No of Passengers

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Second Class

€ 23

€ 27

€ 31

€ 35

€ 39

First Class

€ 34.50

€ 50

€ 65.50

€ 81

€ 96.50

Bearers of a BahnCard and other discount cards do not receive any further discounts on the Bayern Ticket.

Remember to write the name(s) of the traveler(s) in ink on the ticket before boarding. Additional travelers may join later but the highest number of travelers determines the price of the ticket from the start. New passengers may not replace ones that have traveled on the ticket earlier on.

Buying the Bayern Ticket Online or at Stations in Bavaria

The Bayern Ticket is cheapest when bought online or from vending machines. Tickets bought from station ticket windows are usually €2 more expensive.

The Bayern Ticket may also be purchased from most bus drivers but usually not on trams. On most local trains it is not possible to buy tickets and a stiff fine –around €40 per person – will be issued if caught traveling without a ticket. Tickets can never be bought in U or S Bahn trains.

How to Buy the Bayern Ticket Online for Travel in Bavaria

Buying the Bayern Ticket online, especially in English, is slightly more complicated than it needs to be – a straight forward Buy Bavaria Ticket button does not exist. (It has been added to the German site and it is usually the default option on the English regional offers page.) The following process work in all language versions of the German Railways website:

Make a fictitious one-way reservation between stations in Bavaria on the desired date of travel – simply use “M” as departure point and “N” as destination (it will automatically default to München and Nürnberg). Tick the “Local Transportation” box and complete other information as required.

From the timetable, “purchase” one of the Savings Fares to receive the option to buy the Bayern Ticket.

Select payment method and print the final pdf-format ticket.

Be sure to carry the credit card, or other means of identification specified at the time of purchase, when traveling. This is the credit card used for identification purposes and not necessarily the one used to purchase the ticket!

The printed ticket will have the details of the fictitious journey but as the Bavaria Ticket is valid for travel throughout Bavaria, it is immaterial whether the travelers will ever travel on this stretch of the railway network or go to Munich or Nuremberg at all.

An advantage of buying the Bayern Ticket online is that the bearer may start using it on trams, buses, and trains that may not always sell the Bavaria Ticket but accept it for travel. Also, the online price is the cheapest and there is no need to struggle with uncooperative vending machines or queues at the station.

Conditions of the Bayern Ticket Travel Card

The Bayern Ticket comes with several conditions. Most are not much of hardship for the average leisure traveler. The main conditions include:

Travel is only allowed in Bavaria or usually the first stop across the border. Thus the Bavaria Ticket may be used for example on cross-border trains to Salzburg and Reute in Austria but not on local buses or trains inside these cities.

Travel is only allowed on local trains (Nahverkehr) – that includes trains with the abbreviations IRE, RE, RB, S and U. Long-distance trains (Fernzüge) may NOT be used with the Bavaria Ticket – i.e. no travel on ICE, IC, EC, D, TGV and similar trains. Although issued by German Railways, the Bayern Ticket may also be used on most non-Deutsche Bahn trains operating in Bavaria.

The Bayern Ticket is also valid for travel on almost all buses and trams in Bavaria including all transportation in major cities such as Munich (München), Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Augsburg, and Regensburg. It may also be used for transportation to and from Munich Airport (MUC) and trains to Memmingen Airport / Munich –West (FMM) (but not on the Allgäu Express bus).

The Bayern Ticket is valid on weekdays from 9 am (weekends from midnight) until 3 am the following morning. (If travel starts before 9 am, buy a ticket up to the first stop reached after 9 am.) On weekends, an alternative is the Schönes Wochende Ticket, which allows travel across state borders.

The Bayern Ticket Nacht is valid from 6 pm until 6 am the following morning (7 am on Saturday, Sunday, and holiday mornings).

Dogs smaller than a cat and in a carrier container travels for free but larger dogs or dogs not in a container count as a person on the Bayern Ticket.

Bicycles require a separate Fahrrad-Tageskarte Bayern (€5 per day for all Bavaria).

Up to five people may travel together on a Bayern Ticket. Children 5 years old and younger travel for free but other children count as a person (usually children up to 14 can travel for free with an adult on standard Deutsche Bahn railway tickets). Parents and grandparents (maximum two adults per Bayern Ticket) may take all their own children under 14 years, or own grandchildren, even if the number of travelers then exceed five persons.

The Family Rule is more tricky than at first glance: it is only valid if a maximum of two adults travel together and the free travel is only for the children (or grandchildren) of the person whose name appears on the ticket. Thus two mothers traveling with two children each will require two Bayern Ticket Single tickets, while a two-passenger Bayern Ticket would have been sufficient if all four children were from the same family. Similarly, if a family consists of two parents and four children, a second Bayern Ticket will be required if any of the children is 15 years or older – in this case one two-passenger and one single-passenger Bayern Ticket.

Savings with the Bavaria Ticket

Bayern Ticket is excellent value for money and can pay for itself very quickly. For example, a standard one-way fare on local trains from Munich to Nuremberg is around €32, Munich Airport to Salzburg is €30, Munich to Schloss Neuschwanstein €25, and Munich to Rothenburg ob der Tauber €21. The Bayern Ticket is valid for all forms of public transportation in Munich but 17 Munich travel cards are available for cheaper transportation deals in Bavarian capital.

See Ländertickets for similar savings ticket deals available in other German states.

Bavaria Ticket

Save on public transportations (trains, buses, trams) when traveling in Bavaria by using the Bayern Ticket:

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